Plotmath does not have a bold symbol font -- R's plotting system has
only 5 fonts (see 'font' in ?par), and bold symbol fonts are not
commonly installed in plotting systems.
Strictly the symbols such as mu used in mathematical notation differ
from the letters used in Greek. You may get a good substitute using
a Greek letter, depending on the device -- which you have not told us
but I would guess() was windows().
Try replating mu by "\u03bc". (I am not using Windows, but this works
on X11() and quartz() for example.)
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Jim Price wrote:
I'm trying to annotate some graphics using plotmath and finding out that the
code I'm using isn't bolding the greek letters - it bolds the rest (once I
adjusted the numerics to characters), it's just failing on the greek
characters.
Any suggestions welcomed.
Jim Price.
Cardiome Pharma Corp.
Test code:
plot(1:5, type = 'n')
# The not bold version
text(2, 2:4, cex = 2, labels = do.call(expression,
unlist(list('Placebo', lapply(c(3, 6), function(.x) substitute(.x ~~ mu
* g
/ kg / hr, list(.x = .x)))), recur = F)))
# The bold version - note that the greek letter doesn't change
text(4, 2:4, cex = 2, labels = do.call(expression,
unlist(list(substitute(bold(Placebo)), lapply(as.character(c(3, 6)),
function(.x)
substitute(bold(.x ~~ mu * g / kg / hr), list(.x = .x)))),
recur = F)))
sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
i386-pc-mingw32
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] graphics grDevices utils datasets methods stats base
other attached packages:
[1] foreign_0.8-38 latticeExtra_0.6-1 RColorBrewer_1.0-2 lattice_0.17-26
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.10.0 tools_2.10.0
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